Russian Imperial Army--Synopsis of all Reforms from 1850s-1914. As covered in Menning's "Bayonet's Before Bullets"

NOTE: THIS Synopsis, Entitled "Conclusions" by our professor was limited to one page, and as referenced above, is our synopsis of all the reforms the Russian Army underwent between the 1850s (just before the Crimean War) and 1914 (The outbreak of WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution that ended the "Imperial Army" and spawned the "Red Army." Answer: As the nations of Europe edged closer and closer to what was an inevitable conflict, Russia was finally beginning …showed first 75 words of 760 total…

…showed last 75 words of 760 total…be near impossible to defeat once the modernization of mobilization and the follow-on distribution of Offense-Defense operations was finalized. However, the revolution was three years away, the final pieces to the military solutions further--but World War I was not. In the end, it was time that denied the Russian their true emergence to power, and instead handed them a defeated military and disrupted society that was to eventually fall into the hands of the Bolsheviks.